Hosted by Merseyside Cycling Campaign
Saturday 24th October 11:00 – 18:00
Blackburne House, Blackburne Place, Off Hope Street, Liverpool, L8 7PE
The 2015 joint annual Cyclenation-CTC conference was hosted by the Merseyside Cycling Campaign. The event took place at Blackburne House, in the heart of the Georgean quarter of Liverpool, on Saturday 24th October, 11:00-18:00. The venue was open from 10:30am for registration and refreshments.
Blackburne House is less than a mile from Liverpool Lime St station – a 15 minute walk or 8 minute bike ride. Walking directions, click here; Cycling directions, click here.
For a map to the venue, please follow this link. Liverpool offers an excellent Cycle Hire Scheme, information on how to hire a bike and where the hire stations are can be found on the CityBike website.
As always, with an exciting list of speakers and expert workshop leaders the conference was an unmissable opportunity for local and national cycling campaigners to learn from each other on how to campaign effectively to promote cycling, and to get up to speed on the most topical political, policy and technical issues.
You can download an agenda here.
Talk presentations are below: (in the process of being completed – so please watch this space!)
- Simon O’Brien, Green Advisor to the Mayor of Liverpool
- Councillor Tim Beaumont, Chair of Liverpool Cycle Forum
- Prof John Ashton CBE – President, Faculty of Public Health
- Robin Tucker – Chair, Oxfordshire Cycle Network: The Oxfordshire Cycling Network – Making the Economic Case for Cycling (and shortened plenary version)
- Dr Robin Lovelace – Leeds University: National Prospensity tool for Cycling
- DfT announcement from Robert Goodwill MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
- Julian Huppert – previous co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group: Get Britain Cycling
- Louise Ellman MP – Chair, Commons Transport Select Committee
- Roger Geffen MBE – Policy Director, CTC
- Adrian Lord – Phil Jones Associates: A Cycling Strategy with Cycling Money? and
- Adrian Lord – Phil Jones Associates: International Cycling Infrastructure Benchmarking Study (2014)
- Brian Deegan – Principal Technical Specialist at Tfl: Building high quality space for cycling, to enable all ages and abilities to cycle
- Isabelle Clement – Director, Wheels for Wellbeing: Designing Beyond the Bicycle = an Equalities Imperative
- Robin Heydon – Chair, Cyclenation & Co-author “Making Space for Cycling” guide: Building high quality space for Cycling (and shortened version)
- Jim Chisholm – Campaigner, Cambridge Cycling Campaign: Rome was not built in a day
- Ian Tierney – Cycling Projects
- Daniel Robinson – Founder, Peleton Liverpool: Peleton Liverpool: Working in the Margins
- Matt Turner & Emma Metcalfe – Chair & Secretary, CycleSheffield: Effective Campaigning – The art of changing what is possible
BOOKING YOUR PLACE AT THE EVENT (now closed except for late payers!)
Tickets for the event costed £25 and included lunch and refreshments. To pay, please click the button below:
For one week only! We offered a reduced rate for students or unwaged delegates.